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How pleasant to hear an American who now has real lived experience of life in the UK works when it comes to education and education.
Us native Britains are far less effusive about a system which is straining at the edges because of the same corporate greed America suffers , especially after 14 years of conservative rule.
I’m waiting for the usual comments of ‘she’s lucky she’s not been raped by a Muslim gang’ or how it’s not safe to walk in the streets without being harassed by some rabid immigrant.
The truth is, the right want to create the same broken society narrative that Trump creates, and while to a degree society is broken, it’s NOT because of immigrants, but because of the same corporate greed that’s the same creeping cancer ravaging the US and now consuming the world, not because of the have nots, but because of the have yachts.
The hard right failed BREXIT wet dream is costing the UK between 4 and 6% of GDP, with a new study showing that may be as high as 8%. The fact that we are still even in the game is nothing short of a miracle given what right wing ideology has delivered here.
We are struggling, no question, I feel and see it every day, and my lived experience tells me it’s because of greed, not black and brown faces who keep our care industry on its feet as well as the health service and hospitality.
Do we need immigration reform? Absolutely we do, but this ‘throw the baby out with the bath water’ political con trick is utter nonsense. Ideology and dogma doesn’t pay the bills and create wealth and prosperity, working together to create an inclusive society does.
Stop buying the corporate ‘jam tomorrow’ lie that it will all be better when we send the non white people back to the countries we bombed to steal resources from.
It’s time to live the dream and not their nightmare, where we live in a state of perpetual anxiety and tribal division. It’s time to stop being distracted and to sharpen the political pitchforks. Together we can and will overcome this economic terrorism perpetrated by the have yachts. We just have to stay focussed on the truth and be audacious in our ambitions for a better tomorrow.
I’m writing this shorter piece today because I’m back in the garden trying to get all my veg planted in the ground and finish the work I’ve been doing on my veg planting space. Wish me luck, because the weather is being typically British.
I will continue to post notes as unusual, and will be back at the writing desk on Monday.
Martin
